Bed-slat fastener



(No Model.)

L. B. HOPKINS.

BED SLAT FASTENER.

Patented Nov. 8, 1887.

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BED-SLAT FASTENER.

. EPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 372,913, dated November 8, 1887.

Application filed August 8, 1887. Serial No. 246,426. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, LAFAYETTE B. Hor- KINs, of Council Grove, in the county of Morris and State of Kansas, have invented a new and Improved Bed-Slat Fastener, of which the following is afull, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to fastenings for bolding bed-bottom slats to the side rails of a bedstead, and has for its object to provide a sim- Figure 1 is a plan View of parts of a bed stead-rail and abedslat held to each other by myimproved fastener. Fig. 2 is alongitudinal vertical section of the rail, slat, and fastener, taken on the line or as, Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is an inside face view of part of the bedstead-rail with the slatholding iron' attached and the slat removed, and Fig. 4 is a bottoinrcar perspectiveview of the bed-slat iron.

The side rail, A, of the bedstead is provided at its inner face with an auxiliary rail, a, which is usually mortised to receive the ends of the slats of the bedstead, but which-in my improvement gives substantial support to an iron,B,which Icall the rail-iron, and which supports the bed-slat O, which is provided with an iron, D, which I call the slat-iron, and which interlocks with the rail-iron in a manner presently described. The main body part of the rail-iron B has a right-angular general form, or is made with a back plate, 1, which preferably eirtends upward to receive screws 1), by which the iron is held to the bed stead-rail A, while the bottom plate, 2, of the iron rests on the top of the mild, and this plate2 is provided with apendent-flange plate, I), which is securedby a screw, b", to the face .of the rail a. Opposite end flanges, 3 3, projecting upward from the plate 2, form, with theplates 1 2, a socket to receive the end of the bed-slat O. The back plate, 1, of the railiron B is quite thick, to allow the formation in it of a vertically-ranging slot, 4, which receives a lock-plate, d, formed at the outer end of the slat-iron I), and the inner wall of the slot 4 is cut away at 5, (see Fig. 3,) to snugly receive the neck or portion 6 of the slat-iron, which connects its lock-plate d with the bodyplate 7 of the iron, which plate 7 is preferably made in triangular form and is secured by screws (1 to the bed-slat G. The neck 6 of the slat-iron D is thicker than'the body portion 7 of the iron, thereby not only giving strength to the lock plate or tongue d, but also forming a stopshoulder, 8, against the end of the bedslat G, to allow the iron D to be screwed to the slat with an assurance that the lockplate (2 will properly enter the slot 4 of the rail-iron B, while the end of the slat abuts the inner face of the back wall, 1, of said iron,.as will be understood from Fig. 2 of the drawings. The irons B will be'applied to opposite side rails of the bedstead, and the irons D will be fixed to opposite ends of each slat of the bed bottom.

It is obvious that with this fastening the slats will be substantially supported from the rails of the bedstead and cannot shift edgewise, and the'plates or tongues d of the slatirons, by interlocking with the rail-irons, will effectually prevent lateral spreading of the rails of the bedstead. Furthermore, the two parts or irons B D of the fastening may be very cheaply made in cast metal, and may be easily and quickly applied to either new or old bedstead-s.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

As an improved article of manufacture, a bed-slat fastener consisting in the rail-iron 13, formed with the back plate, 1, having apertures, the bottom plate, 2, at right angles to the back plate and provided with the pendent flange b, having an aperture, the opposite upward extending end flanges, 3 3, forming the railsocket, the back-plate being thicker at its juncture with the bottom plate and formed with the vertical slot 4, having part of its I reeessfi in the front wall thereof, substantially front Wall cut away, as at 5, and the slat-iron as set forth.

1), formed of an apertured body portion, 7 hav- LAFAYETTE B HOPKINS ing the tongue (1 at right angles thereto, and the stop-shoulder 8 for the slat at the inner Witnesses:

angle of the slat-iron, the tongue d entering" J. K. OWENS,

the slot 4, and the stop-shoulder engaging the l W. E. ORANFORD. 

